Hat with attached hair

Abstract

A hat having attached hair including a baseball cap style hat with a dome-shaped crown having a front, a rear, and a lower opening for the head of the wearer. The hat further including a bill extending outwardly from the front of the crown. The rear of the crown having a semicircular shaped opening, generally adjacent to the lower edge of the crown. The hat also including a rectangular netting attached generally adjacent to the rear opening of the crown and a plurality of strands of hair wefted onto the netting in a plurality of parallel tracks, with the hair extending downwardly from the netting and outwardly through the semicircular shaped opening in the crown of the hat. Furthermore, the hat including indicia imprinted on the bill and the crown of the hat and optionally LED lights incorporated into the hair.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. A hat having attached hair, comprising:
 a baseball cap style hat comprising a dome-shaped crown removably receivable over the head of a wearer, said crown having a front portion, a rear portion, a lower edge defining a lower opening therebetween for the head of the wearer, an inside surface, an outside surface, and a bill attached to said front portion of said crown and extending outwardly from said lower edge of said front portion of said crown, wherein said rear portion of said crown defines a rear opening therein, generally adjacent to said lower edge of said crown, and wherein said rear opening defined in said rear portion of said crown is generally semicircular shaped and is defined by a semicircular-shaped upper edge having a first end and an opposite second end, and an elastic band extending from said first end to said second end of said semicircular-shaped upper edge; 
 a generally rectangular-shaped, flexible netting permanently attached to said hat with stitches, said netting having four side edges and wherein a first side edge of said four side edges of said netting has a first end and an opposite second end; and 
 a plurality of strands of hair wefted onto said netting; 
 wherein said first side edge of said netting is attached to said inside surface of said rear portion of said crown with stitches in a semicircular shape, along and adjacent to said semicircular-shaped upper edge of said rear opening defined in said crown with said first end of said first side edge of said netting attached adjacent to said first end of said semicircular-shaped upper edge and said second end of one of said side edges of said netting attached adjacent to said second end of said semicircular-shaped upper edge, and the remaining three side edges of said netting are unattached to said cap, such that said plurality of strands of hair extend outwardly and downwardly from said crown through said rear opening defined therein. 
 
     
     
       2. The hat according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 said hair is in the form of a member selected from the group consisting of a ponytail, at least one braid, and a combination of ponytail and at least one braid. 
 
     
     
       3. The hat according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 said plurality of strands of hair are wefted onto said netting in a plurality of generally parallel tracks which are connected to said netting with stitches. 
 
     
     
       4. The hat according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 said hair is synthetic. 
 
     
     
       5. The hat according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 at least one of said crown and said bill of said hat are imprinted with indicia. 
 
     
     
       6. The hat according to  claim 1 , wherein:
 at least one of said crown and said bill of said hat further comprise ornamentation affixed thereto. 
 
     
     
       7. The hat according to  claim 6 , wherein:
 at least one of said ornamentation is three-dimensional. 
 
     
     
       8. The hat according to  claim 5 , wherein:
 both of said crown and said bill of said hat are imprinted with indicia and said indicia on said bill and said crown form an overall unitary image. 
 
     
     
       9. The hat according to  claim 1 , further comprising:
 means for lighting incorporated into said hair. 
 
     
     
       10. The hat according to  claim 9 , wherein:
 said means for lighting comprises at least one strand of a plurality of electrically powered LED lights woven into said hair. 
 
     
     
       11. The hat according to  claim 10 , wherein:
 said plurality of LED lights are intermittent. 
 
     
     
       12. The hat according to  claim 10 , wherein:
 said plurality of LED lights are colored.